Seminar Series

The Department of Economics invites guest speakers to present their research in our Seminar Series. The Economics Seminar generally meets on Fridays from 2:00 – 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted. Anyone is welcome to attend.

Past Seminars

Fall 2005

Date Title Speaker Affiliation Paper
Fri, 12/02/2005
The Economic Value of Mountain Views: Some Preliminary Results
Pete Groothuis
Appalachian State University
Fri, 11/11/2005
The effects of total sleep deprivation on decision-making under uncertainty
David Dickinson
Appalachian State University
Fri, 11/04/2005
Attorney's Compensation in Litigation with Bilateral Delegation
Kyung Baik
Virginia Tech
Fri, 10/28/2005
Willingness to Pay for a Green Energy Program
John Whitehead
Appalachian State University
Fri, 10/21/2005
Estimation of a Latent Choice Multinomial Logit Model with Application to Contingent Valuation
Steven Caudill
Auburn University
Fri, 10/07/2005
Eliciting Willingness to Pay without Bias: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Glenn Blomquist
University of Kentucky
Fri, 09/30/2005
Raiding and Signaling in the Academic Labor Market
Tim Perri
Appalachian State University
Fri, 09/23/2005
Internal Migration and the Earnings of Married Couples in the U.S
McKinley Blackburn
University of South Carolina

Spring 2005

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
Tue, 04/19/2005
Tradable Set-Aside Requirements (TSARs): An Application of a TPP Policy to Spatially Dependent Land Uses
Gregory Parkhurst
Mississippi State University
Fri, 04/15/2005
Testing for Unit Roots and Cointegration Using Instrumental Variables
Junsoo Lee
University of Alabama